One of the nation's leading experts on biomedical ethics will deliver the keynote address at Case Western Reserve University's Research ShowCASE 2004.

Thomas H. Murray, president of The Hastings Center, a national bioethics research institute, and former director of Case's Center for Biomedical Ethics, will speak April 2 in the Veale Convocation Center.

"I was delighted to receive the invitation to speak at Research ShowCASE," Murray said. "It's great to see that the distinguished institutions that have marked Cleveland's contributions to biomedical research are coming together in this fashion to display their research. I think it will be very helpful to the region."

Although Murray has not chosen a title for his speech, he said it will be on moral challenges and moral significance in biomedical research.

Murray joined the faculty of Case's School of Medicine in 1987 as director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics. In 1997 he was named Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics. He left the University in 1999 to become president of The Hastings Center, an independent, nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969 to explore emerging questions in health care, biotechnology and the environment.

From 1996-2001 Murray served as a presidential appointee to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where he chaired the subcommittee on genetics. From 1999-2000 he served as president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

Research ShowCASE 2004 will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 2 in the Veale Center. It is an opportunity for faculty, researchers, undergraduate and professional/graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from Case and its affiliated research institutions to display their research.

The deadline for submitting abstracts to Research ShowCASE's poster committee for work to be displayed at Research ShowCASE 2004 is 5 p.m. January 9, although participants are urged to submit their abstracts before the deadline.

Go to http://ora.ra.cwru.edu/showcase/index.htm for details.

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